Re: DVD Skips

MikeLeeB seemed to utter in news:1141059698.848123.79970
@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

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My latest project was edited by someone else (they're having me clean
up after this guy) and the client says it skips on some machines and
doesn't even play on others (they don't specify beyond that nor explain
"skips"). It plays in my DVD player but occationally I do notice a
strange slowdown of video for a fraction of a second with no change in
audio (barely noticible). The boss thinks the problem is that it was
burned at too high a speed. Could that be it? Would downloading the
vob from the DVD, decoding the audio with AC3DEC, and reburning at the
slowest speed solve this? Is there a formula for determining optimum
speed/quality burn settings?

They also complain about seeing "small colored boxes half way through
the DVD" which I don't see queing through it but I haven't watched the
whole 90 minutes at play speed.

I think the previous editor was using the very same system I am and
even disk type, Vegas 2.0, DVDA 1.0, on DVD-R.

Any ideas?

I have had precisely this behavior when I used cheap
blank media. I used some Memorex DVD-R media on a project
and it played fine on one of my players, but on just
about every other player I tried it on, it would eventually
start skipping and going "blocky" in certain areas. I
reburned the DVD (I had all of the original files since I
produced this in Premiere Pro) using Taiyo Yuden DVD+R
media and it has played perfectly on every player I've
tried.

Burning at too high a speed can cause problems too, but
I think the quality of the media makes a much bigger
difference.

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